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Frank Auerbach Quotes



Quotes by Frank Auerbach - (12 quotes)

Frank Auerbach - From the Audience category:

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Drawing category:

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Imagination category:

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Influence category:

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life - my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Invention category:

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Life category:

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Materials category:

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Methodology category:

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Profession category:

The very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office - a desire for a free and creative life. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Style category:

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Style category:

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. (Frank Auerbach)

Frank Auerbach - From the Work category:

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. (Frank Auerbach)